Category: Days Out in Dorset

Days out in Dorset is a section that brings you all the wonderful things to do in the Blackmore Vale and Dorset in General.

Days out in Dorset, includes fabulous events like the Gillingham and Shaftesbury show.
A really great day out for the whole family whether you are interested in farming or not.

This show is sure to please everyone, even if you are not from the farming community.

This section also includes first hand reviews of fab places you too can go and experience. For example, Rock Reef in Pool, a fabulous indoor climbing experience for all ages and abilities. This experience has been personally reviewed by the BV team, and we gibe you an honest appraisal on the experience.

Blackmore Vale What's on

Dorset’s Spring Countryside Show springs to life this month!

The weekend event is taking place at Turnpike Showground between Gillingham and Shaftesbury on the 22nd and 23rd April The Spring Countryside Show is BACK!Get...

Editorial team - 12 April 2023

Days Out in Dorset

Sturminster Newton Cheese Festival 2022

'J’adore le Cheddar! Et les flapjacks aussi!'Madame Maryline Lecampion’s eyes twinkled as she described the food she had tasted at Sturminster Newton Cheese Festival....

Laura - 15 September 2022

Blackmore Vale What's on

Great Dorset Steam Fair 2022 is all fired up

After a two years enforced break, the Great Dorset Steam Fair (GDSF) is back until Bank Holiday Monday (29th August)! Seen as the world's...

Laura - 26 August 2022

Blackmore Vale What's on

£40m-worth of cars at local teenager’s ‘Classic & Supercar Sunday’ event

Following his successful supercar breakfast meet-up in June, this month local teenager Zander Miller staged his first all day Classic & Supercar Sunday event at...

Laura - 22 August 2022

Days Out in Dorset

WHAT a day for the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show!

The heatwave was a problem. And then the rain was a problem. But the 2022 Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show weather gods were kind; the...

Laura - 18 August 2022

Days Out in Dorset

Tom Robinson – 72, and still got it

Tom Robinson, songwriter and broadcaster, will be at The Exchange later this month. Editor Laura Hitchcock spoke to him about his 50-year career as...

Editorial team - 10 June 2022

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Bucked in the Yarn

Editorial team - 11 September 20240

Three small Somerset villages had a huge impact on global exploration and trade – Rachael Rowe talks to Professor Terry Stevens “Nothing much ever happened...